R.F. Kuang has novels on the Opium Wars as well as *Babel* set in Oxford where translation is a magical skill. The prose was good, though at least *Babel* occasionally felt like a history lesson at times.
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Emma Donoghue and Hannah Kent both write fiction in historical settings. They lean more towards literary fiction than straight up historical fiction, in my opinion, but they cover all sorts of settings.
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Guy Gavriel Kay has a lot of great historical fiction(it’s technically alt world with a very small splash of fantasy, but is based on our worlds history)
Recommend either Lion’s of Al-Rassan which takes place in Spain near the end of the moorish occupation or Under Heaven which takes place during the Tang Dynasty; though I love all of his works.
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James Clavell has a variety set in Asia: Shogun (Japan, 1600s), Tai-Pan (Hong Kong, 1840 and on), King Rat (WWII, but Japanese PoW camp so a bit different), Noble House (follow up to Tai-Pan), Gai-Jin (part 3 of the Asian Saga)
They’re all chonky books but very good.
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Most Isabel Allende books — e.g. Daughter of Fortune
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R.F. Kuang has novels on the Opium Wars as well as *Babel* set in Oxford where translation is a magical skill. The prose was good, though at least *Babel* occasionally felt like a history lesson at times.
Emma Donoghue and Hannah Kent both write fiction in historical settings. They lean more towards literary fiction than straight up historical fiction, in my opinion, but they cover all sorts of settings.
Guy Gavriel Kay has a lot of great historical fiction(it’s technically alt world with a very small splash of fantasy, but is based on our worlds history)
Recommend either Lion’s of Al-Rassan which takes place in Spain near the end of the moorish occupation or Under Heaven which takes place during the Tang Dynasty; though I love all of his works.
James Clavell has a variety set in Asia: Shogun (Japan, 1600s), Tai-Pan (Hong Kong, 1840 and on), King Rat (WWII, but Japanese PoW camp so a bit different), Noble House (follow up to Tai-Pan), Gai-Jin (part 3 of the Asian Saga)
They’re all chonky books but very good.
Most Isabel Allende books — e.g. Daughter of Fortune
In the Time of the Butterflies
Twentieth Wife
Homegoing
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